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you've got at least 300 people in 1 of 3 shelters in rehoboth. and the mandatory no driving ban in place from the delaware governor that is still in effect, and businesses are not allowed to open until after the 4:30 p.m. hour. eight inches of rain in the past couple of days. we'll see much more as the sun begins to rise. live from rehoboth beach, erica gonzalez, news 4. >>> new overnight, a 42-year-old woman rescued from the atlantic ocean died after she and her crew mates were forced to abandon ship. this morning crews searching for the captain of the hms bounty. dramatic video shows the rescue. 14 crew members pulled from carolina's outer banks. the captain called for help when the ship lost power and was taking on water. one of the rescuers describes the conditions. >> being in those waves is more like a washing machine. we have these waves hitting at you from every single direction. >> the crew was trying avoid sandy but got caught in the storm. that ship left connecticut on thursday on its way to florida. >> the new york stock exchange clos
you've got at least 300 people in 1 of 3 shelters in rehoboth. and the mandatory no driving ban in place from the delaware governor that is still in effect, and businesses are not allowed to open until after the 4:30 p.m. hour. eight inches of rain in the past couple of days. we'll see much more as the sun begins to rise. live from rehoboth beach, erica gonzalez, news 4. >>> new overnight, a 42-year-old woman rescued from the atlantic ocean died after she and her crew mates were forced...
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rehoboth beach is coming back to life this morning. it is like we've awakened from a feverish dream. the curse of hurricane sandy is over. the town was deserted, evacuated, but they survived. you saw the dogs and the people and the surfers back on the beach. and you saw people with the metal deckers out trying to see if they could find any kind of bounty left by the sea as the waves came crashing in to see what kind of treasures were brought in this morning. the town of rehoboth emof cars. cars were not allowed in here for almost two days. now it is getting packed pretty quickly. people are coming back to look at the ocean. because the storm was so ferocious. they want to come back and check and touch base with it to make sure it is okay and just to walk on it them were not allowed to for a good day, day and a half. >> absolutely incredible. that's all i've got to say. mother nature at her best. >> i thought it would be a lot worse than this. >> reporter: rehoboth suffered some minimal damage. some power outage and a sandy mess on the
rehoboth beach is coming back to life this morning. it is like we've awakened from a feverish dream. the curse of hurricane sandy is over. the town was deserted, evacuated, but they survived. you saw the dogs and the people and the surfers back on the beach. and you saw people with the metal deckers out trying to see if they could find any kind of bounty left by the sea as the waves came crashing in to see what kind of treasures were brought in this morning. the town of rehoboth emof cars. cars...
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you guys have been working overtime in in rehoboth. thakds to you guys on team rehoboth. we'll see you in a bit. >>> the wind may be dying down, but hundreds of thousands of people in our area still in the dark. more than 100,000 in northern virginia. dominion virginia power working to restore electricity to 109,000 customers right now. that is down 10,000 or so customers since we started this morning. and pepco says about 25,000 of its customers without electricity. bge has 70,000 outages in our area, about 60,000 in anne arundel county. smeco reporting more than 3,400 customers in the dark. >>> news 4's melissa mollet is live from alexandria where there are no lights to be found. >> reporter: we're at commonwealth and myrtle in alexandria. the only lights we're seeing now, guys, the lights from our camera, the lights on our live truck, and a couple of people driving down the street. the entire neighborhood is dark. a couple of trees down here. who knows what caused the power outage. take a look at this tree. as we kind of widen out a little bit, you can see how massive
you guys have been working overtime in in rehoboth. thakds to you guys on team rehoboth. we'll see you in a bit. >>> the wind may be dying down, but hundreds of thousands of people in our area still in the dark. more than 100,000 in northern virginia. dominion virginia power working to restore electricity to 109,000 customers right now. that is down 10,000 or so customers since we started this morning. and pepco says about 25,000 of its customers without electricity. bge has 70,000...
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but the biggest thing yesterday, here in rehoboth beach, in dewey beach, where we are at right now, we saw the brunt nft storm really in the morning. and even when the eye wall came over us, we still had a little bit of rain, still had a little bit of wind, but even at high tide last night, we didn't see the type of waves and the type of erosion that we were seeing yesterday morning. it was just tremendous. so now that we're seeing the after effects, or the effects rather, what we're seeing is flooding. we got a lot of rain, didn't get too much wind. so we're thankful that we're not seeing shattered glass all over the place. but this is what you're finding, where the ocean and the bay meet, and you're seeing roadways in low lying areas just inundated, covered with water. there is still a driving ban that is in place for the state of delaware. residents here are not expected to be back to work until after 4:30. even then it's still questionable. we'll get an update from the governor of delaware. still the impact here is going to be in low lying areas. thankful is looks like the brunt of
but the biggest thing yesterday, here in rehoboth beach, in dewey beach, where we are at right now, we saw the brunt nft storm really in the morning. and even when the eye wall came over us, we still had a little bit of rain, still had a little bit of wind, but even at high tide last night, we didn't see the type of waves and the type of erosion that we were seeing yesterday morning. it was just tremendous. so now that we're seeing the after effects, or the effects rather, what we're seeing is...
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. >> people are returning to rehoboth beach after a crazy couple of days. winds and rain slammed the beach up to but today there's some flooded streets, minimal damage and only scattered power outages. >> of course our region has a long history of storms. we're talking summer, winter storms. how does this compare? >> we wanted to see how the storm system stacked up against recent storms. nose had a major impact on our area. so some call were made to pepco, bge. for irene, i'll step out of the way. you can see irene, over 600,000 without power. of course, a lot of folks remember that. that was just a year ago with the derecho during one of our hottest times of the year and temperature over 100 degrees, we had a million people without power. that was the system that came in fast. and without of course, a lot of preparation. sandy, over 450,000 without power. so less of an impact in terms of power outages but a the downed trees throughout the area that had to be dealt with. such a large storm system that's having impact on the rest of the country. one that we
. >> people are returning to rehoboth beach after a crazy couple of days. winds and rain slammed the beach up to but today there's some flooded streets, minimal damage and only scattered power outages. >> of course our region has a long history of storms. we're talking summer, winter storms. how does this compare? >> we wanted to see how the storm system stacked up against recent storms. nose had a major impact on our area. so some call were made to pepco, bge. for irene, i'll...